Multiple Big name drug busts next week!

Dope PED Farah???

Testost Tyrone Rupp???

I wonder how the world championships in beijing will be influenced by this? I've got to imagine every event, especially the distances events (since these findings are more about blood values than pure steroids) will be shaken up quite a bit.

Glad to see that Farah is not one of them though. While this isn't necessarily concrete proof that he isn't doping, there isn't exactly any evidence to say he is.

i wonder wrote:

Glad to see that Farah is not one of them though. While this isn't necessarily concrete proof that he isn't doping, there isn't exactly any evidence to say he is.

Considering he has been beating all of the drug cheats the last 4 years, he must be really really really talented.

Farah wasn't "talented" until he swallowed AlSal's full training and supplements programs.

whoes???? wrote:

Dope PED Farah???

Testost Tyrone Rupp???

Even though the Daily Mail is the voice of British right-wing nut jobs I doubt it would call Farah a non-Brit.

Tomashova, if she's 40 now, was about 29 in Athens in 2004 and of course doping when she lost to Kelly Holmes, who was 34 then. Draw your own conclusions. Big name busts? I doubt it. More like adding some inconsequential suspensions from eight to ten years ago for athletes already caught. We'll see.

Wait a minute. The IAAF's response to the revelation they permit widespread doping is sanction a few not-so-minor athletes?

Really? Who would okay that? What kind of drugs would Diack be on to agree to this?

That just triples the perception the elite sport is a joke.

Of course there's not Brits, only, it seems, Russians. What's that you say? The race for head of IAAF is between a Brit and a Russian?!? What a weird coincidence....

jjjjjj wrote:

Tomashova, if she's 40 now, was about 29 in Athens in 2004 and of course doping when she lost to Kelly Holmes, who was 34 then. Draw your own conclusions. Big name busts? I doubt it. More like adding some inconsequential suspensions from eight to ten years ago for athletes already caught. We'll see.

That's typical IAAF. I'd believe that. I'd also believe non-Western athletes so there's a profound language/culture barrier.

If the IAAF was actually concerned with drug cheats they'd put in an effective system. Though, they wouldn't make enough money if they actually started busting people.

IAAF diverts attention from scandal by sanctioning athletes who have already been sanctioned

This. Is. Huge.

Here's hoping they finally expose Ben Johnson.

Link wrote:

Of course there's not Brits, only, it seems, Russians. What's that you say? The race for head of IAAF is between a Brit and a Russian?!? What a weird coincidence....

Made me laugh! Thanks. Oh, and it wouldn't surprise me a little if Gatlin worked his way back to the front of the list.

Wake me when they catch Athletes coached by Glen Mills, Jama Aden and Alberto Salazar.

I'm as cynical as you, but have to point out that Bubka is Ukrainean, not Russian. He is generally on the pro-Russian side of Ukrainean politics though.

Who are the drug cheats that MF has beaten in the last 4 years?

This is just the IAAF deflecting. They'll sanction a few Russians and that's it. Cases will probably be weak and end up in the CAS.